St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-07
EXTENDING THE LINES.
President Lowry Confers With
Street Railway Officials in ST.
Paul

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President Thomas Lowry,o of the street
railway company, was i'll st. Paul yes
terday and called upon Gen. Thomas p.
Wilson, the vice president, and other
officials of the company. Nothing new
was projected in street railway improve
mentS, the general understanding being
that the company had all it could
do at present, and as soon
as the present extensions and lines
now in progress were completed the
city would be practically covered. AS
one of the officials expressed it, there is
nothing new i'll the general situation.
The condition of things is practically
thus: The Rice street and West st.
Paul line will be ready as soon as the
sewer on South Robert street is COM
pleted; the Payne avenue darlington
hills) extension of the Lafayette avenue
line, as soon as the city has
the sewer on Edgerton avenue
done, and the Oakland avenue line
when the city has finished paving the
street. I'VE have been delayed very
much and unavoidably in getting the
line over to West st. Paul through,
owing to the delay Mr.. Stickney met
with in finishing the Minnesota &
Northwestern bridge" said the official,
land now the city is running
a sewer along South Robert street at
the end of the bridge. OF course we
are compelled to wait until the South
Robert street sewer is finished. - If we
had known wewere going to have so
much delay, we would have
had turning table put at
the intersection of Third and
Robert streets, and wOnld have had the
Rice street line running long ago. Our
iron for that line has been here ever
have been here ever since last fall, and
our horses have been eating their he; DIS
off without cent of revenue coming i'll.
ONE HALF THE LINE
has been ready all year, completed as
far as Front street, and the other half
is delayed by a little sewer, and this
line is five miles long, Que of the prin-
cipal arteries of the city. But, l think
from the way everything looks now.
that we will have cars running into
West st. Paul in about three weeks.
We are getting along pretty well up
Oakland avenue. We won't do any
thing with the RolldO street line until
we have seen how the cable line is going
to work. The cable line contractors
are getting along very fast. They were
delayed by their machinery, but to-day
they have got one-fifth of all the iron
yokes required, and all within the last
two or three weeks. We have a good
engine and boiler in, and are getting up
the building quite rapidly. We
have every reasonable hope to ex-
pect that the cable line will be COM
pleted before Nov. L, or before frost
comes, at any rate. The contractors are
doing the best they can, because they
are under penalty of 5000 per day to
get the cable line completed by Nov. l.
| don't think we can do anything with
the motor line this year. Nor will we
take any action on the other cable lines,
Seventh street line, etc., until next
January. 1t may be that this cable line
may not prove a success. This climate
may be too severe. We are doing the
best we can; you must know that it is
to Our interest to meet the wants of the
public; it is money in our pockets to do
so. The complaints come mostly from
real estate men, who anticipate too
much. They started a rumOr that we
were going to extend the Selby- avenue
line to Smelling, but there is nothing in
it. They also Started a rumor thatwe
were going to run the Rondo1ine mile
or two out here on the prairie, and so
we may after awhile, but not for some
time to come. When we get through
with what we have already in hand l
think the city will be practically COW
cred. All the people need is little pa
tience."